Publication Ethics
The ethical policy of JMR is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with the JMR Editorial Board codes of conduct. Readers, authors, reviewers, and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with JMR. In addition, the ethical policy of JMR is liable to determine which of the typical research papers or articles submitted to the journal should be published in the concerned issue. For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines, please visit http://publicationethics.org.
>Editors' responsibilities
Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published. The editor will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. The decision will be based on the paper’s importance, originality, and clarity, the study’s validity, and its relevance to the journal's scope. Current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism should also be considered.
Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
>Reviewers' responsibilities
Contribution to editorial decisions
The peer-reviewing process assists the editor and the editorial board in making editorial decisions and may also serve the author in improving the paper.
Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and withdraw from the review process.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgment of sources
Reviewers should identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the paper has not been cited in the reference section. They should point out whether observations or arguments derived from other publications are accompanied by the respective source. Reviewers will notify the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
>Authors' responsibilities
Reporting standards
Authors of original research reports should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Data access and retention
Authors could be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the paper for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.
Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
In general, papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Manuscripts that have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere cannot be submitted. In addition, manuscripts under review by the journal should not be resubmitted to copyrighted publications. However, by submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retain the rights to the published material. In case of publication, they permit the use of their work under a CC-BY license [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/], which allows others to copy, distribute and transmit the work as well as to adapt the work and make commercial use of it.
Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.
The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list. The corresponding author will also verify that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
> PUBLISHER responsibilities
Handling of Unethical Publishing Behaviour:
In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification, or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work. The publisher, together with the editors, shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
Access to Journal Content
The publisher is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility by partnering with organizations and maintaining our own digital archive.
>Conflicts of interest
The concept of conflict of interest (COI) means the difference of interests between them, the relationship of interests.
Indication of conflicts of interest indicates that certain subjects are reasonably construed as interfering with that.
A conflict of interest can arise from any utilitarian relationship that the author, editor, or reviewer may have with a scientific paper. This relationship could be:
- Financial or non-financial
- Personal or professional
- Individual or institutional (if it is, for example, a field note describing a programme, approach or tool from the author's organisation).
The program of the Kufa Journal of Arts is committed to transparency in areas where there are potential conflicts of interest. The journal encourages all its researchers and editors to publish and review policies related to conflicts of interest as they relate to authors, editors, and peer reviewers.
The Journal of Kufa Arts adheres to the application of the (COPE) recommendation regarding "author responsibilities - conflicts of interest" in the authors' dispute in cases involving conflicts of interest. Authors must disclose, at the time of submission, information about formal approvals and financial conflicts of interest, or other interests that may affect the article. Authors must declare the sources of funding for the work performed as well.
All participants in the peer review and journal publication process must disclose all relationships that could be considered potential conflicts of interest. Editors may use the information disclosed in the financial and conflict of interest statements as the basis for editorial decisions.
Authors must identify the individuals who contributed writing or other assistance and disclose the source of funding for this assistance. All authors must disclose in their research any financial or other conflicts of interest that may be interpreted to influence the results or interpretation of this research. All sources of financial support for the project must also be disclosed.
To report a conflict of interest, the reviewer should contact the editorial office via the journal's official mail to clearly state the conflict of interest, explain his relationship to the author, the manuscript, or both, and forcefully request that he be released as reviewer of this specific document.
